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Jens Nordlunde · 30th January 2006, 05:09 PM

In one of my books I read, that when the Europeans tried to forge an ingot they failed, and one of the reasons was, that they heated the ingot far too much. An ingot should have cherry colour when being forged, and they heated it till it was white – loosing whatever carbon in the ingot from the start.

30th January 2006, 05:09 PM	#33
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,718	In one of my books I read, that when the Europeans tried to forge an ingot they failed, and one of the reasons was, that they heated the ingot far too much. An ingot should have cherry colour when being forged, and they heated it till it was white – loosing whatever carbon in the ingot from the start.